The phrase "a simple decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a straightforward or uncomplicated reduction in quantity, size, or value.
Example: "The report indicated a simple decrease in sales over the last quarter, which was expected due to seasonal trends."
Alternatives: "a straightforward reduction" or "an uncomplicated decline."
This allows comparisons between acousticians', city-users' and planners' categorizations of urban soundscapes, and suggests that a simple decrease of noise level or the elimination of noises is insufficient to account for urban environment improvement.
The introduction of a second plasmid decreases by itself the toxicity, probably by lowering the amount of m8-GFP that is produced (by a simple decrease in the plasmid copy number due to the presence of two plasmids).
Stimulation of TRN thus causes thalamic neurons to oscillate in a slow wave pattern rather than undergoing a simple decrease in activity.
Finally, they show that this mutant has a severe growth defect, which is consistent with disregulation of CTP levels, rather a simple decrease in the CTP pool.
The latter observation indicates that culturing the cells in hyperglycemic environment develops persistent modification of elastic properties, which cannot be reverted by a simple decrease in glucose concentration, even to the physiological level.
The fact that skin conductance in patients with QV did not correlate with the scores for weak voice or enlarged tongue may be due to a more complex mechanism that induces these two symptoms rather than a simple decrease in sympathetic nervous activity.
"But gosh, there are some really simple things they can do to decrease diversion".
In any case our data rule out that there is a simple linear decrease in performance with age, which contrasts with results on heat shock survival showing in various insects a strong decline during the early adult period [42], [48].
Soluble TfR levels and the ferritin index increased sharply in infancy, while the age profile of CRP suggested a simple linear decrease in inflammation with increasing age (Fig. 3A D).
On the other hand, the simple decrease condition (convexity) cannot be guaranteed to be satisfied.
The formula has been rather simple: decrease debt while increasing horsepower for every car Nissan and Infiniti sells, and don't raise prices.
